Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
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All touchscreen phones are likely to look pretty much the same to be truthful. What distinguishes the Nokia 5800 is its sleekness: it’s much narrower than the iPhone 3G, in fact with a width of 52mm; it’s probably the narrowest touchscreen phone around. The device has a wide range of input options: finger touch, stylus and plectrum with a virtual alphanumeric keypad, full and mini QWERTY keyboards and handwriting recognition. The display will rotate automatically when you turn the phone to landscape mode.
Normally the XpressMusic phones have dedicated buttons for music, and the Nokia 5800 has a dedicated virtual media bar for quick access to music controls, as well as functions like the gallery and web browser. The big question is: “Is the touchscreen on the 5800 as good as the iPhone?” A front-mounted video camera enables you to make video calls on a 3G network.
The phone is supplied with an 8GB memory card, which can store up to 2,000 MP3 tracks (or 4,000 in AAC format), and if your music collection grows even bigger, you can upgrade this to a massive 16GB. The optional Comes with Music feature gives you unlimited music downloads for a whole year! There’s also a built-in FM radio. No complaints for music then.
The 5800′s big touchscreen is ideal for web browsing. The Nokia 5800 beats the iPhone here too, with support for Flash meaning that you can watch videos from YouTube and other sites on your phone. The phone is also WiFi compatible, so you can get super fast data transfer speeds in the vicinity of a WLAN network or a WiFi Hotspot.
You get a couple of games and the standard Series 60 organiser applications with the phone, including document browsers and a good organiser.
The Nokia 5800 shares design characteristics with the iPhone and Samsung touch-screen handsets like the Omnia. The candy bar shape offers clean lines with rounded corners and a black and burgundy color scheme (there’s also a thin red stripe). At 4.37 inches tall by 2.04 inches wide by 0.61 inch deep, it is relatively small as touch-screen phones go, though it is a bit thicker than average. On the home screen there are icons for the phone book and the phone dialer. The phone dialer has large virtual buttons with larger numbers, yet the phone dialer does not show the corresponding letters on each numeric key. Yes, we realize the phone has a full keyboard for dialing, but you’ll still need the letters to dial some phone numbers (like 1-866-402-CNET) and when spelling a person’s name in an automated phone directory. The Nokia 5800 offers several ways to type messages. The full QWERTY keyboard takes full advantage of the Nokia 5800′s display. You can scroll through text you’ve already written by tapping the chosen area on the display.
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